June Gadsby was born with two passions in her head – that of painting and, most importantly, writing.

She describes herself as a multi-genre author and most of her books take her readers from one side of the world to another. Her stories contain all the elements that are necessary to please everyone who reads them – including murder, mystery, romance and humour, the latter coming naturally to her. “If I don’t have a good laugh every day there’s something wrong. I can see the funny side of most things – which is fortunate as I’ve had some scary moments in my life.”

When she’s not writing in her office, she can be found painting in her studio. She lives in Gascony, France with her photographer husband, Brian, and tiny Yorkshire Terrier, Toby.

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Struggling to save her marriage, which is becoming more and more abusive, artist Megan Peters does not expect to fall in love with another man. Callum Andrews is a world-famous musician who has been happily married to the same woman for 25 years. When she is invited to paint the celebrity’s portrait, an affair is far from her mind, but her heart has other ideas. Callum, for his part, remains the perfect gentleman, apparently unaware of the younger woman’s feelings towards him. Keeping emotions at bay eventually becomes a fight for both of them, until a festive kiss and Fate takes over. They can no longer deny their true feelings. But what of Callum’s wife, Hilary, who dotes on her famous husband? This affair of theirs, if they allow it to progress, will hurt her deeply and neither Megan nor Callum want that for the charming woman who has sacrificed so much for her husband’s career. They decide to put an end to their relationship, but Fate intervenes again in a most unexpected way. Then secrets emerge…

Lorna is trying to rebuild her life after the war that robbed her of her husband and her son of a father he never knew.

However, eleven-year-old Simon refuses to accept that Max is dead. Lorna does not believe in miracles, but it is Christmas and all Simon asks is the chance to see the place where his father’s plane crashed.

In the dense Basque forest, a man called Olentzero brings a touch of magic back into their lives…